Milk Ordinance 

of the 

City of Niagara Falls 

New York 



Passed June 26, 1916 



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MILK ORDINANCE 

PASSED JUNE 26, 1916 



Rli^GUljATIOlS S GOVERJVING THE SALE OF 

MIIjK in the city of NIAGARA 

FALIiS, N. Y. 

Definitions : 

1. Milk Dealer — Any person or persons, 
firm, corporation or association who sells milK. 
cream or buttermilk in any quantity in the City 
of Niagara Falls, N. Y., except as provided 
under Regulation 5, 

2. Dairy-man — Any person or persons, firm, 
corporation or association who sella or pre- 
pares for sale milk, cream or buttermilk in 
the City of Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

3. Milk-producer — Any person, persons, 
firm, corporation or association who shall have 
in his or their possession any cow or cows for 
the purpose of producing milk for sale in the 
City of Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

4. Milk-house — Any room or apartment 
where milk, cream or buttermilk is prepared, 
bottled, or in any way handled for distribu- 
tion in the City of Niagara Falls, N. Y. 

Regulation 1. — No person or persons, firm, 
corporation or association shall hereafter en- 
gage in or continue in the business of con- 
ducting a milk dairy, sell or offer for sale, at 
retail, milk, cream, or buttermilk in the City 
of Niagara Falls, N. Y., without first obtain- 
ing a permit or license as hereinafter pro- 
vided. Such permit shall expire on the thir- 
tieth day of April following the date of issue 



and shall be renewable on or before the first 
day of May in each year, and such permit is 
not transferable and may be revoked for cause 
by the Health Officer after a hearing on duo 
notice. 

RegTilatioii 2. — Any person or persons, firm, 
corporation or association hereafter desiring 
to engage or continue in the business of con- 
ducting a milk dairy and dealing in milk, 
cream or buttermilk in the City of Niagara 
Falls, N. Y., shall first make a written appli- 
cation sworn to by the applicant in the form 
prescribed by the State Commissioner of 
Health to the Health Officer, setting forth the 
name of such person or persons, firm, cor- 
poration or association and the place by street 
and number where the business is to be car- 
ried on. The applicant shall likewise file a 
correct statement with the Health Officer giv- 
ing the name and address of the dairy, person 
or persons, firm, corporation or association 
from whom he receives or expects to receive 
milk, cream or buttermilk, the approximate 
amount of milk, cream or buttermilk to be 
furnished by each such producer. The Health 
Officer shall hereafter cause such place with 
all its appurtenances, fixtures and appliances 
connected therewith or to be used thea^ein, to 
be carefully inspected and if satisfied, having 
in view the protection of the Public Healtli, 
that the said applicant has fully complied with 
the provisions of these regulations, the Health 
Officer shall issue a written permit to such 
applicant to engage in the business of con- 
ducting a milk dairy and of dealing in milk, 
cream and buttermilk at such place. 

Regulation 3. — Retail grocers who sell milk 
in addition to their other commodities shall be 
termed a milk dealer under these regulations. 



Regulation 4. — No milk, cream or butter- 
milk shall be sold in the City of Niagara Fallg, 
N. Y., at retail unless the same is contained in 
milk bottles, used in the retail business of dis- 
tributing milk or cream. All such bottles or 
other individual containers must be filled with 
milk or cream and prepared by a duly licensed 
milk or cream dealer and all retail grocers and 
other store keepers must obtain milk, cream 
or buttermilk to be sold only from a dealer li- 
censed to sell milk, cream or buttermilk in the 
City of Niagara Falls, N, Y. All bottles or 
containers of milk or cream while in the pos- 
session of the retail grocer or other store- 
keeper must be kept in a sanitary compartment 
to be used for no other purpose, and the milk 
and cream therein kept at a, temperature not 
to exceed 50 degrees Fahrenheit and at all 
times to be kept covered and not exposed to 
dirt, flies or other unsanitary conditions. It 
is hereby declared unlawful for any retail groc- 
er or storekeeper to dispense milk or cream 
other than in bottles as herein specified or to 
prepare or fill any bottles or jars with milk, 
cream or buttermilk for the purpose of sale 
or to sell any so-called dipped or can milk or 
cream. No licensed milk or cream dealers 
shall furnish milk or cream to be sold by any 
retail grocer or store.keeper unless the same 
complied with all the provisions of this ordi- 
nance governing the sale and sanitary protec- 
tion of milk and cream and such sale may be 
forbidden at any time by the Health Officer. 

Regulation 5. — All bakers, restaurant keep- 
ers, saloon keepers, and all persons having or 
offering for sale milk, cream or buttermilk 
which is intended to be drunk, consume.d or 
used on the premises and any person, firm, 
corporation or association using milk or cream 
for commercial purposes in the manufacture 



of candies, ice cream or baked goods, or other 
food products shall procure such milk, cream 
or buttermilk only from dealers licensed by 
this Bureau, and shall not require a permit to 
sell milk, cream or buttermilk in the manner 
above specified. Milk, cream or buttermilk 
kept upon such premises must be stored, han- 
dled and sold in conformity with all the pro- 
visions of these regulations governing the sale 
and sanitary protection of milk, cream and 
buttermilk. 

Regulation 6. — All dairies, milk houses, 
rooms and apartments used in the milk or 
cream business in the City of Niagara Falls, 
N. y., and all milk cans, bottles and con- 
tainers and all coolers, boxes and other equip- 
ment and utensils the owner or owners of 
which sell or offer for sale milk or cream or 
both within the City of Niagara Falls, N. Y,, 
shall be subject to an inspection by the Health 
Officer or his representative. Any official or 
authorized inspector of the Bureau of Health 
may enter and inspect any place where milk 
is sold or kept, and any wagon, carriage or 
vehicle used to convey milk or cream within 
the City, shall furnish without charge to the 
Health Officer or his representative for exami- 
nation, samples of milk, cream or buttermilk 
sold by them. Any refusal on the part of the 
producer or dealer or their agents, to allow 
such entrance for inspection or to furnish 
samples of milk, cream or buttermilk for ex- 
amination, shall constitute sufficient reason for 
revocation of their permit or license. 

Regulation 7. — The Health Officer or his 
representative shall make a sanitary inspec- 
tion of every dairy farm where milk, cream or 
buttermilk is produced to be sold in the City 
of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and shall score each 
dairy farm on the score card prescribed by 

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the State Commissioner of Health, such in- 
spection and scoring shall be made at least 
once a year and before the thirtieth day of 
April in each year, and any producer of milk 
whose average fails below fifty per cent, on 
said score card shall not be permitted to dis- 
pose of his product in the City of Niagara 
Falls, N. y. 

Regulation 8. — No person, firm, corporation 
or association shall sell or offer for sale in the 
City of Niagara Falls, N. Y., any milk, cream, 
or buttermilk that has been interdicted by the 
Health Officer, or any unwholesome, impure, 
watered or adulterated milk, or any that has 
chemical preservative or other material chang- 
ing its character, or any milk 

(1) Containing more than 88 per cent, of 

water or fluids. 

(2) Containing less than 11.5 per cent, of milk 

solids. 

(3) Containing less than 3 per cent, of fats. 

(4) From which any part of the cream has 

been removed, except as hereinafter 
provided in Regulation 18. 

(5) Having lactometer reading of less than 

29. 

(6) Containing bacteria of any kind of more 

than four hundred thousand per cubic 
centimeter. 

(7) Drawn from any cow having a contagious 

or communicable disease. 

(8) Drawn from any cow v/ithin fifteen days 

before or five days after parturition. 

(9) Having a temperature over 60 degrees or 

which has been stored at a temperature 
higher than 50 degrees F. 

RegTilatlon 9. — All milk sold or offered for 
sale at retail shall bear one of the designations 



provided in this regulation, which constitutes 
the minimum requirements permitted in this 
City. No terms other than "certified" shall be 
used to designate the grade or quality of milk 
or cream which is sold or offered for sale, 
except 

"Grade A. raw." 

"Grade A, Pasteurized." 

"Grade B, raw." 

"Grade B, Pasteurized." 

"Grade C, raw." 

"Grade C, Pasteurized." 

Regulation 10. — Certified. No milk shall 
be sold or offered for sale as certified milk 
which does not conform to the regulations pre- 
scribed by and bear the certification of a milk 
commission appointed by a county medical so- 
ciety organized under and chartered by the 
medical society of the State of New York, and 
which has not been pronounced by such au- 
thority to be free from antiseptics, added pre- 
servatives and pathogenic bacteria, or bacteria 
in excessive numbers. All milk sold as certi- 
fied milk shall be conspicuously marked with 
the name of the commission certifying it. No 
county medical society shall give such certi- 
fication unless all cows producing such milk 
have been tested at least once during the pre- 
vious year with tuberculin, and any cow re- 
acting thereto has bee,n promptly excluded 
from the herd. 

Regulation 11. — Grade A, Raw. No milk or 
cream shall be sold or offered for sale as 
"Grade A, raw," unless it conforms to the fol- 
lowing requirements: 

The dealer selling or delivering such milk 
or cream must hold a permit from the Health 
Officer. 

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All cows producing such milk must have 
been tested at least once during the previous 
year with tuberculin, and any cow reacting 
thereto must have been promptly excluded 
from the herd. Such milk must not at any 
time previous to delivery to the consumer 
contain more than 60,000 bacteria per cubic 
centimeter and such cream not more than 300,- 
000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. 

Such milk and cream must be produced on 
farms which are duly scored on the score card 
prescribed by the State Commissioner of 
Health not less than twenty-five per cent, for 
equipment and not less than fifty per cent, 
for methods. 

Such milk and cream must be delivered 
within thirty-six hours from the time of milk- 
ing. 

Such milk and cream must be delivered ^o 
consumeirs only in containers sealed at the 
dairy. The caps or tags must be white and 
contains the term "Grade A, Raw," in large, 
black type, and the name and address of the 
dealer. 

Regulation 12. — Grade A, Pasteurized. No 

milk or cream shall be sold or offered for sale 
as "Grade A, Pasteurized," unless it conforms 
to the following requirements: 

The dealer selling or delivering such milk 
or cream must hold a permit from the Health 
Officer. 

All cows producing such milk or cream must 
be healthy as disclosed by an annual physical 
examination. 

Such milk or cream before pasteurization 
must not contain more than 200,000 bacteria 
per cubic centimeter. 

Such milk must not at any time after pas- 
teurization and previous to delivery to the con- 



sumer contain more than 30,000 bacteria per 
cubic centimeter, and such cream not more 
than 150,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. 

Such milk and cream must be produced on 
farms which are duly scored on the score- 
card prescribed by the state commissioner of 
health not less than twenty-five, per cent, for 
equipment and not less than forty-three per 
cent, for methods. 

Such milk and cream must be delivered 
within thirty-six hours after pasteurization. 

Such milk and cream must be delivered to 
consumers only in containers sealed at the 
dairy. The caps or tags must be white and 
contain the term "Grade A, Pasteurized," in 
large black type. 

Regulation 13. — Grade B, Raw. No milk or 
cream shall be sold or offered for sale as 
"Grade B, Raw," unless it conforms to the 
following requirements: 

The dealer selling and delivering such milk 
or cream muse hold a permit from the Health 
Officer. 

All cow^s producing such milk or cream 
must be healthy as disclosed by an annual 
physical examination. 

Such milk must not at any time previous to 
delivery to the consumer contain more than 
200,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter and such 
cream not more than 750,000 bacteria per cu- 
bic centimeter. 

Such milk and cream must be produced on 
farms which are duly scored on the score- 
cards prescribed by the State Commissioner 
of Health not less than twenty-three per cent, 
for equipment, and not less than thirty-seven 
per cent, for methods. 

Such milk and cream must be delivered 
within thirty-six hours after the time of milk- 

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ing. The caps or tags on the containers must 
be whitet and contain the term "Grade B, 
Raw," in large, bright green type, and the 
name of the dealer. 

Regulation 14. — Grade B, Pasteurized, No 

milk or cream shall be sold or offered for sale 
as "Grade B, Pasteurized," unless it con- 
forms to the following requirements: 

The dealer selling or delivering such milk 
or cream must hold a permit from the health 
officer. 

All cows producing such milk or cream 
must be healthy as disclosed by an annual phy- 
sical examination. 

Such milk or cream before pasteurization 
must not contain morQ than 300,000 bacteria 
per cubic centimeter. 

Such milk must not at any time after pas- 
teurization and previous to delivery to the 
consumer contain more than 100,000 bacteria 
per cubic centimeter, and such cream not more 
than 500,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. 

Such milk and cream must be produced 
on farms which are duly scored on the score- 
cards prescribed by the State Commissioner of 
Health not less than twenty per cent, for 
equipment and not less than thirty-five per 
cent, for methods. 

Such milk must be delivered within thirty- 
six hours and such cream within forty-eigat 
hours after pasteurization. 

The caps or tags on the containers must be 
white and contain the term "Grade B, Pas- 
teurized" in large, bright green type, and the 
name of the dealer. 

Regulation 15. — Grade C, Raw. No milk or 
cream, shall be sold or offered for sale as 

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"Grade C, Raw," unless it conforms to the 
following requirements: 

The dealer selling or delivering such milk 
or cream must hold a permit from the health 
officer. 

Such milk and cream must be produced on 
farms which are duly scored on score-cards 
prescribed by the state Commissioner of Health 
not less than fifty per cent. 

Such milk and cream must be delivered 
within forty-eight hours of the time of milk- 
ing. 

The caps or tags affixed to the, containers 
must be white and contain the term "Grade C, 
Raw," in large red type. 

Regulation 16. — "Grade C, Pasteurized." No 

milk or cream shall be sold or offered for sale 
as "Grade C, Pasteurized" unless it conforms 
to the following requirements: 

The dealer selling or delivering such milk 
or cream must hold a permit from the health 
officer. 

Such milk and cream must be produced on 
farms which are duly scored on the score-card 
prescribed by the State Commissioner of 
Health not less than fifty per cent. 

Such milk and cream must be delivered with- 
in forty-eight hours after pasteurization. 

The caps and tags affixed to the containers 
must be white and contain the term "Grade 
C, pasteurized," in large red type. 

Regulation 17. — No person, firm, corporation 
or association keeping cows for the sale of 
milk in the City of Niagara Falls, N. Y., shall 
feed the same upon refuse or any decomposi- 
ing animal or vegetable food or any food un- 
less the same is nutritious, healthy and incap- 
able of exciting any pernicious influence upon 

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the milk, nor give them water that is impure, 
or contaminated. 

Regulation 18. — No milk dealer by himself 
or his agents shall sell or have with intent to 
sell milk from which the cream has been re- 
moved in whole or in part unless sold as skim- 
med milk or unless in a conspicuous place on 
both sides of his vehicle from which such milk 
is sold the words "Skimmed Milk" is distinctly 
and legibly painted in letters not less than two 
inches in height. All cans and other rece.p- 
tacles from which skimmed milk is sold shall 
be plainly marked in this manner. 

Regulation 19. — All milk houses, rooms and 
apartments used in the handling, storing and 
preparing of milk must be substantially con- 
structed and in repair, of .sufficient size, prop- 
erly drained and be light and well ventilated 
and be used for no other purpose than the 
storing, handling and preparing of milk. 

The floors of such milk houses, rooms and 
apartments must be water-tight and be con- 
structed of hardwood, cement, brick or other 
impervious material to admit flushing and in- 
sure cleanliness and must be properly drained. 
The side walls must be of. impervious material 
to a height of six feet and constructed so as 
to exclude rats, mice and vermin, and the 
walls above, unless painted or of finished nat- 
ural wood, enameled brick or other sanitary 
material, must be whitewashed at least once 
a year and oftener if so directed by the Health 
Officer or his representative. Any milk house 
or building not constructed or arranged to 
maintain sanitation to the satisfaction of the 
Health Officer in the interest of the public 
health shall be changed to conform thereto 
when in the judgment of the Health Officer 
the public interests are concerned thereby, and 

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no building- shall be constructed or altered for 
a milk-house unless the plans for the same are 
first approved by the Health Officer or his rep- 
resentative. 

Regulation 20. — All milk houses, rooms or 
apartments, their appurtenances and fixtures 
must be maintained in a state of cleanliness, 
but no disinfectants shall be used in or about 
any room where milk or cream or both are 
handled, prepared or stored. No dogs, cats, 
or other animals, or pets shall be allowed in 
any such room or apartment and from April 
to November of each year all doors and win- 
dows of milk-houses, rooms or apartments 
where milk is stored must be provided with 
wire screens to exclude flies and insects. 

Regulation 21. — No cellar under any room 
or apartment where milk is stored, handled 
or prepared or distributed shall contain any 
water closet, urinal, or be used for any pur- 
pose exercising any detrimental effect upon 
the milk contained in the rooms above nor of 
rendering such apartment or room unsanitary 
or offensive. 

Regulation 22. — No room, or apartment 
where milk is stored, handled or prepared 
shall communicate with any stable, water 
closet, sleeping or living room, nor any place 
or opening capable, in the judgment of the 
health officer, of having an unsanitary or 
detrimental influence upon milk. 

Regulation 23. — AH milk coolers, used for 
the storage and cooling of milk must here- 
after be substantially constructed of cement or 
other non-corrosive material and the internal 
surface of the same shall be made smooth and 
impervious to prevent absorption and permit 
proper cleaning. They shall be constructed, 

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arranged and placed so as to give ready ac- 
cess to all parts to permit thorough cleaning 
and all such boxes shall be cleansed and 
flushed as oft^n as may be directed by the 
health officer or his representative. All such 
milk boxes shall be properly drained over and 
into a drain, but they shall not be connected 
directly with any such drain or sewer. 

Regulation 24. — All plumbing connected with 
boxes for storing and cooling of milk and with 
milk houses, rooms and apartments where 
milk is stored shall be designed and so con- 
structed in accordance with the rules and 
regulations respecting plumbers and plumbing 
in the City of Niagara Falls, N. Y, 

Regulation 25. — No person, firm or corpora- 
tion dealing in milk or cream or both shall 
move his dairj- within the city limits from the 
place where he is licensed to conduct it to 
any other place in the city without first noti- 
fying the Health Orncer in writing of such in- 
tended removal and no such person shall re- 
move such dairy to any new location until said 
new location has first been inspected in all its 
details and received the approval of the Healtii 
Oflicer. 

Regulation 26. — No person, firm or corpora- 
tion dealing in milk shall change his source 
of supply either by addition or changing from 
one milk producer to another without first no- 
tifying the Health Oflicer in writing of such 
change giving the correct address and location 
of such new supply and all the facts required 
in making application for a permit. 

Regulation 27. — No person, firm or corpora- 
tion dealing in milk or cream or both and re- 
ceiving his supply from without the city limits 
by railroad or other transportation shall per- 

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mit any cans of milk or cream or both to re- 
miain on any platform or other place unpro- 
tected from the sun and rain, but shall suit- 
ably and efficiently protect the same by cauiJ- 
ing- such cans to be placed under cover, or ef- 
ficiently covering them with canvas or other 
similar protection and no such milk dealer 
shall thereafter permit any cans containing 
milk or cream or both to remain at any rail- 
road terminal or other place after arrival for 
a longer period J:han one hour from the time 
of arrival but shall remove the same; with ex- 
pedition. 

Regulation 28. — No milk or cream shall be 
sold or offered for sale as pasteurized unless it 
has been subjected to temperatures averaging 
145 degrees Fahrenheit for not less than 30 
minutes; and no milk or cream which has been 
heated by any method shall be sold or offered 
for sale unless the heating conforms to the 
provisions of this regulation. After pasteur- 
ization the milk or cream shall be immedi- 
ately cooled to a temperature of 50 degrees 
Fahrenheit and placed in clean containers and 
the containers shall, be immediately sealed. 
No milk or cream shall be pasteurized more 
than once. 

RegTilatloii 29. — No person suffering from 
tuberculosis, opthalmia, or other contagious 
disease, or any skin disease shall be employed 
in any part of a milk house or in the hand- 
ling or preparation of milk or cream. No 
person shall be employed in preparing or hand- 
ling milk or cream at wrhose home or resi- 
dencei there may be a case of tuberculosis of 
the lungs without such person first obtaining 
permit in writing to be so employed from the 
Health Officer. 

Regulation 30. — No person shall expectorate 
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upon the floor, wall or equipment in or about 
any milk house. 

Rog'iilation 31. — All milk veJiicles shall 
have the number of the permit and the name^ 
of the owner plainly painte.d thereon in let- 
ters not less than two inches high. 

Regulation 32. — Every dealer who uses 
his business wag-on or other vehicle shall from 
the month of May to September inclusive have 
and keep upon said wagon, cart or vehicle a 
covering of canvas or other material so as to 
securely protect the same from the sun and 
weather and evexy dealer shall at all times 
maintain the milk on his vehicle or vehicles 
at a temperature not to exceed 60 degrees Fah- 
renheit and all milk found to be above this 
temperature shall be condemned. 

Regulation 33. — Every person who deals in 
milk or cream or both and provides his cus- 
tomers with tickets or checks of any nature 
whatsoever shall use tickets and checks a sin- 
gle time only. Such tickets or checks upon 
return by the customer must be expeditiously 
destroyed. 

Regulation 34. — No person, persons, firm, 
corporation, or association dealer in milk or 
cream or both, nor his agents shall serve, milk 
or cream in bottles to any dwelling house that 
has in it any infectious or contagious disease 
that is placarded by the Bureau of Health for 
infectious or contagious disease until said plac- 
ard has been removed by the proper authori- 
ties, nor shall any person remove from such 
dwelling any bottles, receptacles or contain- 
ers, which have been or are to be. used for the 
purpose of storing or distributing milk. 

Reulation 35. — Nor shall any dealer in milk, 
cream or buttermilk, nor his agents, bottle, 

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cause to be bottled or prepare for delivery or 
deliver into an empty bottle any part of his 
niilk, cream or buttermilk while upon the de- 
livery wagon nor at any other place than the 
milk-house. 

Regulation 36. — No person or persons re- 
ceiving any milk or cream from any dealer 
in bottles or jars or other receptacles shall re- 
tain such bottles, jars or other containers in 
their possession for a longer period than twen- 
ty-four hours, providing such milk dealer, 
owner of such property calls for the same. Nor 
shall any person or persons having in their 
possession temporarily or otherwise bottles, 
jars, or receptacles used for the delivery of 
milk or cream use the same while in their 
possession in any manner or for any other 
purpose than the storing and keeping of milk 
or cream originally delivered in the bottle, jar 
or container, and on emptying the same of 
milk or cream the person or persons tempor- 
arily in possession of such bottle, jar or con- 
tainer shall immediately rinse it, and no deal- 
er in milk or cream shall receive any returned 
bottles that may be unrinsed or contaminated 
or deliver milk or cream to any person or place 
that does not comply with the requirements of 
this section. 

Regulation 37. — No grocer, storekeeper or 
other person shall utilize or permit to be util- 
ized any milk or cream bottle or jar or other 
receptacle for the purpose of delivering any 
article other than milk or cream or for any 
purpose whatsoever except the storing, keep- 
ing and delivery of milk and cream. 

Regulation 38. — No milk dealer shall use 
any bottles, jars or receptacles for the distri- 
bution of milk or cream without the same are 
first efficiently cleansed and sterilized by steam 

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and placed in boiling water for not less than 
three minutes, and in the meaning of this 
section this is to be done in addition to the 
ordinary washing and cleansing with hot wat- 
er, soap or other cleaning agents. 

Regulation 39. — No milk or cream shall be 
sold or kept for sale under any conditions 
which in the opinion of the Health Officer are 
not clean and sanitary, and no milk shall be 
served in bottles unless the bottling is doiie 
under clean and sanitary conditions. Each 
bottle shall be capped securely by sanitary 
caps, and by methods approved by the Health 
Officer. 

Regulation 40. — Every can or other vessel 
which is used to contain milk or cream or 
buttermilk intended for sale shall be constant- 
ly kept in a clean and sanitary condition. When 
emptied and before being returned by the per- 
son to whom it was last delivered full or part- 
ly full every such can or vessel shall be effec- 
tively cleaned. 

Regulation 41. — The Health Officer or his 
representative shall condemn any such can or 
other vessel found by him to be in such con- 
dition that it cannot be rendered by washing, 
clean and sanitary as a receptacle for milk or 
cream and shall so destroy or inark the con- 
demned vessel as to show that it has been con- 
demned. When so condemned and marked, 
such can or vessel shall not be used again to 
contain milk or cream for sale. The Health 
Officer or his representative may seize and 
hold as evidence any can or other vessel re- 
turned or otherwise used in violation of this 
regulation. 

Regulation 42. — Every person or persons, 
firm, corporation or association who shall vio- 

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late any of the provisions of this ordinance 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject 
to a fine not less than ten nor more than fifty 
dollars. 

Regulation 43. — This chapter of ordinances 
shall take effect immediately. 



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INDEX 

B 

Reg. Pg-. 

Bottles 4 5 

Buttermilk, selling- at retail, prohibited 

except in bottles 4 5 

C 

Certified 10 8 

Construction of milk coolers 23 14 

Contagious diseases 29 16 

Contagious diseases, leaving bottles at 

houses containing 34 17 

Containers to be clean 6 6 

Containers to be inspected 6 6 

Covered vehicles 32 17 

Cows, feed for 17 12 

Cream from licensed dealers 4 5 

Cream, selling at retail prohibited ex- 
cept in bottles 4 5 

D 

Dairy farms to be inspected 7 6 

Dairy farms to be scored 7 6 

Dairyman defined Def. 2 3 

Dairies, removal of, H. O. to be notified 25 15 

Dairy to be inspected 6 6 

Delivery wagons 35 17 

Dipped milk, selling prohibited 4 5 

E 

Equipment to be inspected 6 6 

Expectorating on the floor, prohibited. 30 16 

G 

Grade A, pasteurized 12 9 

Grade A, raw 11 8 

Grade B, pasteurized 14 11 

Grade B, raw 13 10 

Grade C, pasteurized 16 12 

Grade C, raw 15 11 

G 

Grocers termed as milk dealers 3 4 

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H 

Reg. Tg. 
Health Officer to inspect 2,6,7 4,6,6 

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Ice cream, manufacturers 5 5 

Infectious diseases, leaving bottles at 

houses containing 34 17 

L 

License, date of expiration of 1 3 

License, duration of 1 3 

License, form of application for 2 4 

License required 1 3 

License to be revoked 6 6 

Living rooms 22 14 

M 

Milk bottles 4 5 

Milk bottles to be cleaned 36 18 

Milk bottles to be returned 36 18 

Milk bottles, not to be used for other 

purposes 37 18 

Milk bottles, who may fill 4 5 

Milk containers, to be returned 36 18 

Milk cans to be protected 27 15 

Milk, containers for 4 5 

Milk coolers, to be clean 23 14 

Milk dealers, defined Def. 1 3 

Milk dealers, change of source of sup- 
ply, H. O. to be notified 26 15 

Milk, grades of 9 7 

Milk houses, construction of 19 13 

Milk house, defined Def. 1 3 

Milk house to be screened 20 14 

Milk house to be kept clean 20 14 

Milk house to be inspected 6 6 

Milk house, use of disinfectants in.... 20 14 

Milk interdicted, not to be sold 8 7 

Milk producer, defined Def. 3 3 

Milk selling at retail prohibited, except 

in bottles 4 5 

Milk to be obtained from licensed deal- 
ers only 4 5 

Milk minimum, requirements for 9 7 

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Penalty for violation 42 19 

Permit, by whom issued 2 4 

Permit, date of expiration 1 3 

Permit, form of application for 1 3 

Permit, not transferable 1 3 

Permit, revocation of 1 3 

Permit required 1 3 

Permit, who does not require 4 5 

Plumbing 24 15 

R 

Refusal of inspection 6 6 

Removal of bottles from houses con- 
taining infectious or contagious 

disease 34 17 

Restaurant keepers 5 5 

S 

Saloon keepers 5 5 

Skimmed milk 18 13 

Skimmed milk to be marked 18 13 

Source of supply, H. O. to be notified 

of change of 26 15 

Spitting on floor prohibited 30 16 

Stables 22 14 

Store keepers prohibited from using 
bottles for other purpose than 

containing milk 37 18 

T 

Temperature of milk on vehicles 32 17 

U 

Urinals, location of 21 14 

Utensils to be inspected 6 6 

V 

Vehicles, bottling of milk on prohibited 35 17 

Vehicle, number of license to be on.. 31 17 

Vehicles to be inspected 6 6 

W 

Wagons to be inspected 6 6 

Water closets 21 14 

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